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James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE (born June 11, 1959), known professionally as Hugh Laurie, is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian, and author. He is known for portraying the title character on the Fox medical drama series House (2004–2012), for which he received two Golden Globe Awards and nominations for numerous other awards. He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House. His other television credits include arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in the miniseries The Night Manager (2016), for which he won his third Golden Globe Award, and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep (2012–2019), for which he received his 10th Emmy Award nomination. Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever, he joined the Cambridge Footlights, a university dramatic club that has produced many well-known actors and comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship, which later ended yet they remain good friends. She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. Laurie, Fry and Thompson later parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge" in "Bambi", an episode of The Young Ones, with the series' co-writer Ben Elton completing their team.
In the late sixties, two of the largest companies in the world, Reliable Excavation Demolition (RED) and Builder’s League United (BLU) command most of the world’s economics. On the outside, these rival business build, destroy, and manage buildings all over the world. However, beneath the façade of fair competition, the companies wage a secret war against one another. Mercenaries have been hired from across the globe in order to drive the other out of business. Led by unknown commanders, these mercenaries fight it out without question. Eventually, some of the mercenaries question their battle, wondering what is really behind this. Something is being hidden by these companies, something destructive and dangerous. Only the soldiers of Team Fortress will ever discover and put an end to it. Mission begins in ten seconds. Are you up to the challenge?
